Video = “7eventh Time Down ‘Internet Dangers’” (2:32) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6lifxAPfpk iii. This is why Christian music is so powerful… not about just sounding good, but life-changing lyrics iv. Music makes us move (dance), but more than that, God is on the move! 1. Not moves like Jagger, I want you to have… (Whistle & sing), “moves like Jesus”! II. A God On The Move a. What He Is Calling You To i. I hope you know God is not a stationary God, who waits for you to show up to church to worship Him (He’s not here when we aren’t) or who waits in your bedroom for you to kneel down and prayer (He goes with you to school and everywhere else). Message in the Music 6 ii. He is active, working, always on the move First Baptist Student Ministry - Wednesday, August 6, 2016 iii. So… are you going to join Him? He’s calling you iv. College radio interview: What’s God calling you to… Tonight, we conclude our summer message series and prepare our hearts for Video = “7eventh Time Down LIVE at WGTS 91.9” (2:22) what God has in store for this new school year, as we get to know this new and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT2d9JlfT7w fun band 7eventh Time Down with their latest hit single, “God Is On The Move”. b. How God Is On The Move (based on these lyrics) I. A Band On The Move i. He’s transporting people from darkness to light a. Getting To Know 7eventh Time Down 1. Matthew 5:14-16 = “You are the light of the i. Band from Mount Vernon, KY (pic on screen) world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be ii. Members: Mikey Howard, Eric Vanzant, Cliff Williams, hidden. 15 No one lights a lamp and then and Austin Mille puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is iii. Active since 2004, debut album in 2011 placed on a stand, where it gives light to iv. Hit songs like: Just Say Jesus, The One I’m Running everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, To, God Is On The Move, & Promises let your good deeds shine out for all to see, v. Latest album = God Is On The Move (August 2015) so that everyone will praise your heavenly vi. Supports CURE International (assists disabled kids) Father.” (NLT) b. Getting To Know Why They Exist ii. He’s helping people face temptation & stand to fight i. Have you ever thought about why the bands you 1. 1 Corinthians 10:13 = “The temptations in listen to exist? Is it just to entertain you? Just to get your life are no different from what others your money (concerts, downloads, merch)? Or, for experience. And God is faithful. He will not something more? allow the temptation to be more than you ii. 7eventh Time Down = exists to reach people for can stand. When you are tempted, he will Jesus, especially students! Their lyrics are real and show you a way out so that you can their hearts are for you. What’s some of the stuff you endure.” (NLT) struggle with right now? Many of you have told me, iii. He teaching people to serve and not be served it’s how you use the internet. They care about that 1. Mark 10:45 = “For even the Son of Man did too. Listen to them talk about it during an interview not come to be served, but to serve, and to with Remedy Live… give his life as a ransom for many.” (NIV) iv. He’s strengthening people with weaknesses that Imagine this scene: You are on the Florida coast. The sun is setting like bring them to our knees a gigantic orange ball. It’s the cool evening on a vacant, isolated stretch of 1. Eph. 3:14 = “When I think of all this, I fall beach. The water is lapping at the shore, the breeze is blowing slightly. There to my knees and pray to the Father.” (NLT) are one or two joggers and a couple of fishermen. Most people have gone home 2. You need a Paul prayer life (fall to your for the day. You look up and you see an old man with curved shoulders, bushy knees and pray), not a Justin prayer life (fall eyebrows, and bony features hobbling down the beach carrying a bucket. He to your knees and cry or ask ‘why’) carries the bucket up to the pier, a dock that goes out into the water. He stands v. He’s revealing truth to people to set them free on the dock and you notice he is looking up into the sky and all of a sudden you 1. John 8:34-36 = “Jesus replied, “I tell you see a mass of dancing dots. You soon recognize that they are seagulls. They are the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of coming out of nowhere. The man takes out of his bucket handfuls of shrimp and sin. 35 A slave is not a permanent member begins to throw them on the dock. The seagulls come and land all around him. of the family, but a son is part of the family Some land on his shoulders, some land on his hat, and they eat the shrimp. forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you Long after the shrimp are gone his feathered friends linger. The old man and are truly free.” (NLT) the birds. a. Handcuffs = fake this time! What is going on here? Why is this man feeding seagulls? What could vi. He’s guiding people to stand upon His Word compel him to do this—as he does week after week? 1. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 = “So then, brothers The man in that scene was Eddie Rickenbacher, a famous World War II and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the pilot. His plane, The Flying Fortress, went down in 1942 and no one thought he teachings we passed on to you, whether by would be rescued. Perhaps you have read or heard how he and his eight word of mouth or by letter.” (NIV) passengers escaped death by climbing into two rafts for thirty days. They fought 2. Sitting on your Bible? Standing on it! thirst, the sun, and sharks. Some of the sharks were nine feet long. The boats vii. He’s calling a generation to stand on the truth were only eight feet long. But what nearly killed them was starvation. Their 1. 1 Peter 2:9 (Summer Camp passage) = “for rations were gone within eight days and they didn’t have anything left. you are a chosen people. You are royal Rickenbacher wrote that even on those rafts, every day they would priests, a holy nation, God’s very own have a daily afternoon devotional and prayer time. One day after the devotional, possession. As a result, you can show Rickenbacher leaned back and put his hat over his eyes and tried to get some others the goodness of God, for he called sleep. Within a few moments he felt something on his head. He knew in an you out of the darkness into his wonderful instant that it was a seagull that had perched on his raft. But he knew that they light.” (NLT) were hundreds of miles out to sea. Where did this seagull come from? He was viii. He’s reaching out to the searching souls also certain that if he didn’t get that seagull he would die. Soon all the others on 1. Matthew 7:8 = “For everyone who asks, the two boats noticed the seagull. No one spoke, no one moved. Rickenbacher receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to quickly grabbed the seagull and with thanksgiving, they ate the flesh of the bird. everyone who knocks, the door will be They used the intestines for fish bait and survived. opened.” (NLT) Rickenbacher never forgot that visitor who came from a foreign place. 2. This is how Jesus works… just come, but we That sacrificial guest. Every week, he went out on the pier with a bucket of need to tell those searching where to come shrimp and said thank you, thank you, thank you. (new school year, new mission field!) The apostle Paul wrote, “For Christ’s love compels us…” (2 Corinthians ix. He’s waiting for us to reply “Send me, here I go” 5:14). The word “compels” means literally, “leaves me no choice.” Paul is 1. Isaiah 6:8 = “Then I heard the Lord asking, saying, “I have no choice but to respond to the love of Christ with my whole “Whom should I send as a messenger to being—to say thank you, thank you, thank you!” this people? Who will go for us?” I said, When we serve Christ, when we share God’s love with others, when we come to “Here I am. Send me.”” (NLT) church each week to worship him, we don’t do it begrudgingly. We do it with 2. He is on the move! Will you join Him? thankful hearts because we really have no choice. It’s how we say thank you! (Hot Illustrations 1.0, The Seagull) Music Video = “7eventhTimeDown - God Is On The Move” (3:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwTgTYKkP3c Albertville First Baptist Church - AlbertvilleFBC.org © 2016 Justin Worden - 256.878.2291 office - 256.744.3355 cell • God is not a stationary God, waiting here for you… • Our God is active, working, always on the move! 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